Today is the birthday of Dame Agatha Christie, born September 15, 1890 in Torquay, Devon, England. Her legendary characters include the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, avid knitter and good listener Miss Marple, and crime-solving duo Tommy and Tuppence Beresford.
Christie’s first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was was published in 1920, and it introduced Poirot, who went on to exercise his little gray cells in 33 novels and 54 short stories.
According to Wikipedia, Poirot is the only fictional character to have been given an obituary in The New York Times, following the publication of Curtain in 1975. Christie died shortly thereafter, on January 12, 1976.
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